Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-09-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The boundaries Of Scotland em-
brace 1856 islands
London has police army of 49,
849 men. The chief has a salary Of
$40. 500 a year.
Speaking generally. the average
length of life in England is forty-four
years; the average length among the
upper classes is fifty-three years.
-Steel-framed cabs are now being
manufactured in England, with a view
to lightness and greater durability
than if wood were used for the pur-
pose.
DR. Barnardo's Homes in London
now hold no fewer than two thousand
poor boys and girls wholly dependent
upon him: the most of whom would.
but for their admission to these homes,
have probably grown up to evil lives.
More than ten thousand other misera-
BILE children have also been trained in
these homes-Boston Transcript.
The British telegraph service,
which is part of the post-ofice. does
not pay expenses since the rate was re-
duced to sixpence per message. or
about II cents. The deficit for the past
year was f223 900 on working ex-
penses and 1926. 600 for interest on the
working captain all ESQ., 600. or
S2,75O,OO0.
In Algeria there is small stream
which the chemistry of nature has con-
verted into true ink. 1t is formed by
the union of two rivulets. one of which
is very strongly lmpregnated with iron.
while the other. meandering through
peat marsh. imbibes gallic acid. an
other ingredient in the formation of
ink. Letters and other manuscript
matters are satisfactorily written with
this singular natural compound of iron
and gallo acid.
The English red-tape army and
navy officials do queer things Not
only do they send canned meat to
Australia. were the woods are full of
meat; rice to India and sugar and rum
to jamaica but on recent occasion
they literally sent Goals to Newcastle
for some war ships on the Tyne. Until
very recently they used to send vast
quantities of gun -fiints to Quebec every
year, because such gun adjuncts used
to be shipped there centuary ago
Boston Transcript.
The remains. Of a cemetery belong
ing to the age Of the Gauls have re-
Gently been discovered in Paris, in the
old Fambourg St. G rman. at the corr
ner of the Rues Rocroi and Bellechase.
Fifty-two tombs have been found with
skeletons, most of which are skeletons
of women and children. Only twelve
are skeletons of men. Many weapons
and implements have also been I'M
Embellishments, lances. and bronze
and iron instruments of all descrip-
tions.-Springfe'd Republican.
The P;rsees of Bombay have long
been famous for their charitable munif-
icence, and the example of the late Sir
Jamseijee J'jeebhoy. known through
out the civilized WOrlU LOT MS llDerall.
tv. is being emulated at the present
day by another Parsee. Sir Dinshaw
Manockjee Petit. sheriff of Bombay.
who has just offered the Government
of Bombay one and one-half lakh (S75.
OOO). for the purpose of establishing a
female college in that city.-M y In
dependent.
Among the peoples who inhabit
the region nsar Stanley Falls is one
which has a very peculiar copper coin.
age, consisting of enormous spear
heads made out of very thin copper.
One of these is valued as equal to two
hundred English pounds worth of |
ivory. Every thing among them has |
its'value reckoned in terms of copper |
spears. Tippoo-Tb, the rich and i'm
Guential Arab trader whose henchmen.
not long ago. captured the Stanley
Falls station, has sent one of these !
spears to London. This tribe manu-.
features highly artistic metal work.
Boston Budget.
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